Moderation: Feedback Loops Are Not Particularly Interested… Unless
November 3, 2019
I read the Los Angeles Review of Books’ essay “Why Technologists Fail to Think of Moderation as a Virtue and Other Stories About AI.” The write up explores Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI. The essay and Possible Minds are worth reading.
DarkCyber wants to add one very small, probably angstrom-sized point:
Technology thrives on feedback loops.
Like a screech from the sound system in a 1960s’ school auditorium, feedback loops are not into moderation. The one attribute some of the most interesting technology giants share is the thrill of a fast ride on a feedback loop. Amazon is not alone with momentum, flywheels, and magnetism.
Do something. Money arrives. Do that something again. Money arrives. Like the auditorium’s sound system, zap. Whine.
Stephen E Arnold, November 3, 2019
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